Zhou Billy's words made Song Tao stunned when he heard it, and his face was full of incredulity.

"Big brother, isn't this a bit bullshit, are the high-ranking officials of the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen all stupid? Such a big thing, can they hide it? It is an important town on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, not that the displaced people have broken through a city and a county, as soon as this opening in Ningxia is broken, the Mongolian iron cavalry in Monan can reach the Guanzhong Plain. ”

Zhou Billy smiled, and then said lightly: "If we withdraw from Ningxia Town within a few days, the process of mobilizing troops and horses on the three sides of Shaanxi will take a few days, and when they stabilize the defense of the three towns of Gansu, Yansui and Guyuan, and then sprinkle a large number of nights, they find that the Tartars who attacked Ningxia Town have been withdrawn, and these military leaders will definitely be happy to die, and it will take a soldier to recover Ningxia Town, which is a military merit that is clearly given to them."

As for whether you can hide it, that's really nothing. The military towns on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty have been doing smuggling business with the northern grasslands for 200 years, is this a trivial matter? Every year, Daming takes out so much silver to spend on the nine sides of Daming, but most of this silver is greedy for ink, is this a trivial matter? Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, even if it is a modern society, are there still few things that are deceived and concealed? ”

Song Tao listened to Billy Zhou's words, and immediately felt very indignant, but he really couldn't refute it. In this era, the information is backward, and what happened in the border towns will not know what it will become when it is transmitted back to the capital.

Li Ming lowered his head and thought for a while, and finally made up his mind, he raised his head and said in a deep voice, "Okay...... Then it was decided, and the field regiment and the engineer regiment were used as the main forces of the operation. The previous plan was completely reversed, and we now have a new battle plan. ”

Everyone listened to Li Ming's words, and they all became excited.

Li Ming saw that everyone was very excited, so he smiled and said: "Don't be happy so early, everyone, this operation is not as simple as imagined." If it is really as Lao Zhou said, then the materials in Ningxia Town are definitely not a small amount. The collection and delivery of supplies was the top priority of the operation.

This operation must be swift, and within a limited time, all the materials in Ningxia Town must be scavenged, and then all forces in the Hetao base area must be mobilized to safely transport the large amount of seized materials back to the Hetao base area. It's easy to say. But we need to do a lot of work, and there must be no mistakes in every link.

In addition, the transportation capacity of the Hetao base area is still very poor, and if we rely solely on war horses and carriages, I am afraid that it will still be far from being able to meet the needs of transportation capacity. Only by relying on the waterways of the Yellow River and concentrating a large number of internal and steam barges can a large number of grain and other materials be quickly transported back to the Hetao base area. ”

When Li Ming said this, he thought for a moment, then turned his head to Zhou Billy and asked, "Old Zhou, if Ningxia Town is lost." What will be the reaction of the trilateral governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty? ”

Zhou Billy said with a smile: "The governor of the three sides of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty, stationed in Guyuan, Yansui, Ganlan, and Ningxia, as well as all the generals of the eight provinces of Shaanxi, are all under his control.

The Mongols attacked Ningxia and its southern Guyuan from Mobei, and there were usually two main routes: one was to enter the east, which was to break through the side wall from Huamachi and Hengcheng, and go straight to Guyuan through Tongxinweizhou and Qianwang; One is westward. Enter from the Chimu Mouth of Helan Mountain, and cross the Yellow River along the line of Zhongwei and Zhongning. Go south along the Qingshui River and go straight into Guyuan.

Although the location of Ningxia Town is important, Guyuan is also the location of the Shaanxi trilateral command center, once Ningxia Town is lost, the first thing the Shaanxi Trilateral Governor should do is not to immediately send troops to counterattack, but first strengthen the defense of the three towns of Gansu, Yansui and Guyuan, and then mobilize troops from all over the country to support the three towns.

At present, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shanxi Province, is exterminating the thieves in Henan and Huguang for a generation. When he left Shaanxi, he took with him many tiger generals and elite border troops from various towns in Shaanxi. At present, there is a general army in charge of the three sides of Guyuan and Shaanxi, and before we withdraw from Ningxia Town, we will basically not transfer troops to attack Ningxia Town. ”

After listening to Zhou Bili's words, Li Ming nodded and said, "Then you don't have to consider the reaction of the Ming army first." For the sake of safety, while attacking Ningxia Town, we mobilized a large number of Mongolian militia brigades to the south to feint on Chimu Pass, Shengjin Pass, Great Wall Pass, and the line from Huamachi to Heng Castle. ”

Song Tao nodded, then pointed to the Guyuan generation on the map, and said with a smile: "We can also let the Hetao guerrilla detachment create chaos in the Guyuan area." Let the Ming army in the initial stage of our operation, take care of one thing and lose the other, and do not understand the direction of our attack. ”

Billy Zhou also said with a smile: "We will strengthen the strength of the Ningxia Town Intelligence Station some time before the start of the operation, send some first-line intelligence officers and a large number of second-line intelligence officers, enter Ningxia Town to make preparations in advance, and lead the troops to occupy various important targets in Ningxia Town when the troops attack Ningxia Town." ”

Li Ming listened to the words of the two, and said to Wang Haiyang next to him with a smile: "Haiyang, during this time, you, Lao Wang, and Iron Hammer must pay close attention to training the Hetao guerrilla detachment, and the guerrilla detachment will serve as a general reserve in this operation, ready to participate in the battle at any time." In addition, it is also necessary to organize daily training for tens of thousands of displaced people here, mainly focusing on organizational discipline and queue training, so as not to ask them to go into battle to kill the enemy, but at least when we help us collect and deliver supplies, don't make any more trouble. ”

After studying together for a while, Li Mingcai said to everyone with a smile: "I think it's almost over, and the details of the specific campaign will be handed over to the General Staff of the Northwest Field Army, so that they can immediately organize their forces and immediately start formulating the battle plan for the Ningxia Campaign." Is there anything else you can add? If not, then the general plan for this Ningxia campaign is so decided. ”

The change in the operational plan of the Ningxia Campaign made it impossible for Li Ming to report to Gao Jianguo by telegram again, and to introduce the new plan for the Ningxia Campaign in detail to several members of the Standing Committee of the Board of Directors.

Several members of the Standing Committee of the Board of Directors of the Far Eastern Company held a special meeting to study the new Ningxia campaign plan. Everyone is still quite supportive of this new plan. However, several members of the Standing Committee also put forward demands, that is, we must control the scale of the campaign and ensure the stability of the northwest region of the Ming Dynasty.

After receiving the resumption of the company's board of directors, Li Ming, Song Tao, and Zhou Billy immediately returned to the Hetao base area by airship, and held a meeting at the headquarters of the Northwest Field Army to make arrangements for the preparations for the Ningxia campaign. He also instructed the General Staff of the Northwest Field Army to organize forces to draw up a new operational plan. (To be continued.) )

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